Paying an official extra to rush your papers is a bribe, because it pushes other people's papers aside and delays them.1, 2, 3
Corruption prevails because of people's own works, and God makes them suffer the consequences so that they may return; he would render corruption as misery.1, 2, 3
When corruption, lawlessness, and disobedience of God take over the earth, God destroys it, as He did in Noah's time.1, 2, 3
The principle that God diminishes usury extends to any sinful earnings, such as gambling, so those who seem to profit from them really end up losing.1, 2, 3, 4
The fourth kind is the retributive disaster, which strikes a society or person corrupted beyond reform, as with Sodom and Gomorrah, and it is the only kind one may attribute to God.1, 2, 3
The dictators of the region care only about their thrones, act as if they will live forever, and never learn from past experiences.1, 2